[Accrs-ho] The Photo Shoot

[ACCRS HO Scale]

It would be best to use Amtrak power.

Dean

On 4/29/2018 6:27 PM, ACCRS HO Scale wrote:
> Message From: Jamie West  bayarearailfan at gmail.com
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> I have a special HO Amtrak set that is a tribute to a friend of mine 
> who passed away last year right before the fair (he owned a matching 
> car that is in this train) that I would like to run for the shoot, but 
> don’t have any Amtrak power. Is it ok to run it behind my UP 1943 
> locomotive or is there someone that can lend me their modern-era 
> Amtrak locomotive(s)?
>
>  - Jamie
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Apr 29, 2018, at 10:49 AM, ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org 
> <mailto:accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org>> wrote:
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>> Message From: Andy Kelsey kj6dtq at gmail.com <mailto:kj6dtq at gmail.com>
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>> Hello all
>>
>> Thank you for all that showed up Friday and Saturday to clean the 
>> layout in preparation for the photo shoot with TSG Multimedia.  
>> Regrettably I was not able to show either day due to work and getting 
>> ready for a business trip that I will be on all next week, coming 
>> home on Saturday (the day of the photo shoot).
>>
>> Just a reminder, this is a photo shoot that has the very real 
>> potential to be seen world wide!  Who ever is showing up that 
>> Saturday to help with this great endeavor pleas bring your best 
>> running AND best appearing equipment.  We need to make our club look 
>> good, no missing hand rails, lights working, appropriate paint and so 
>> on.  The operating rules will be in affect, run prototypically.  By 
>> prototypically I mean run scale appropriate speeds, appropriate 
>> equipment and so on.  I have learned that when I am taking video of 
>> my trains, sometimes what looks good to the eye turns out to be warp 
>> speed on film.  To quote Space Balls "They've gone plad!"  So please 
>> no "plad" trains.   Whatever your power is, run equipment behind it 
>> that is appropriate for that era.  There are guide lines as far as 
>> era is concerned in the operating rules that have been voted in.
>>
>> Follow the photographers' instructions, I am sure most of us have 
>> seen their videos before, they are good at what they do.  Assume that 
>> when they are there it is not going to be a free run.  Odds are 
>> trains will be staged and run on cues for the sake of the video, in 
>> other words hold off camera and on the given cue run it through the 
>> shot, but above all listen to instruction, the shots are planned, are 
>> trains are now actors.  The videos I have seen, follow one train 
>> around the layout with a few meets thrown in.  That one train NEEDS 
>> to run well with ideally no issues.
>>
>> Who ever is showing Saturday for the shoot, I have herd that the 
>> shoot is starting at 10.  Please show up at 9 if you can to set up 
>> and clean track.  If you have a track cleaner in your train make sure 
>> it is in good working order, looks respectable, AND is era 
>> appropriate!  Remember we are trying to replicate the real world.
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>>
>> -- 
>> Andrew K.
>> KJ6DTQ
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